{"id":53334,"date":"2025-12-07T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/kelsea-ballerini-warns-fans-she-might-stop-singing-penthouse\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:35:00","slug":"kelsea-ballerini-warns-fans-she-might-stop-singing-penthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/kelsea-ballerini-warns-fans-she-might-stop-singing-penthouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsea Ballerini Warns Fans She Might Stop Singing &#8216;Penthouse&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/kelsea-ballerini\" target=\"_blank\">Kelsea Ballerini<\/a>\u00a0is giving a final warning to fans who heckle or take sides while she&#8217;s performing her\u00a0<em>Rolling Up the Welcome Mat<\/em> track &#8220;Penthouse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s currently in the midst of a round of Australia shows, and on Friday night, Ballerini sang &#8220;Penthouse&#8221; as part of her set in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>But as she concluded the song, a heckler yelled out, &#8220;Team Morgan!&#8221; &#8212; aka <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/morgan-evans\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Evans<\/a>, Ballerini&#8217;s ex-husband and the person she&#8217;s singing about in many of her\u00a0<em>Rolling Up the Welcome Mat<\/em> tracks.<\/p>\n<p>She stopped the show in the moment, and corrected the heckler, &#8220;Team everyone&#8217;s happy,&#8221; according to fan-posted footage.<\/p>\n<p>But Ballerini also later shared that fan&#8217;s video of the moment on her Instagram Stories, along with a warning.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What Did Kelsea Ballerini Say About Being Heckled at Her Sydney Show?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Ballerini&#8217;s comment suggests that it&#8217;s pretty common for hecklers to pop up when she plays this song live &#8212; and she&#8217;s sick of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Respectfully, if anyone yells anything disrespectful to anyone during this song again, it will no longer be on the set list,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer alignnone\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Kelsea Ballerini Heckler<\/span><\/p><figcaption>Kelsea Ballerini, Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Please let this be a song that matters to people and not a place to insert yourself into a world that doesn&#8217;t exist and was never yours to begin with,&#8221; the singer continued. &#8220;Team everyone&#8217;s happy or bust. Please.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>When Did Kelsea Ballerini Get Divorced?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Ballerini and Evans <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/kelsea-ballerini-morgan-evans-divorce-finalized\/\" target=\"_blank\">finalized their divorce<\/a> in November 2022 after <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/kelsea-ballerini-morgan-evans-divorce\/\" target=\"_blank\">announcing <\/a>their split that August.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, that means heckling fans are taking sides over a breakup that happened well over three years ago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer alignnone\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Jason Kempin, Getty Images<\/span><\/p><figcaption>Jason Kempin, Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Why? Well, the country star&#8217;s marriage and split was ultra-public, and Ballerini also documented her divorce in vivid, raw detail in\u00a0<em>Rolling Up the Welcome Mat<\/em>. &#8220;Penthouse&#8221; is one of the deepest-cutting songs on the track list, with lines like &#8220;<em>It stings rolling up the welcome mat \/ Knowing you got half<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plus, this particular show was in Australia &#8212; Evans&#8217; home country &#8212; so it makes sense he&#8217;d have some passionate fans in the crowd still holding a grudge against Ballerini, even years later.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Who is Morgan Evans Dating Now?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Evans is happily coupled with country singer Laci Kaye Booth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer alignnone\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Emma McIntyre, Getty Images<\/span><\/p><figcaption>Emma McIntyre, Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>They made their red carpet debut at the 2025 CMA Awards, and frequently appear in each other&#8217;s social media posts.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Who is Kelsea Ballerini Dating Now?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Kelsea Ballerini dated\u00a0<em>Outer Banks<\/em> actor Chase Stokes from 2023 to their reported breakup in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>A source confirmed their split to\u00a0<em>People<\/em>, but there&#8217;s some evidence that they were on-again, off-again in the weeks that followed. In November, <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/kelsea-ballerini-chase-stokes-back-together\/\" target=\"_blank\">more reports emerged<\/a> that they were giving their relationship another try.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read More<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/kelsea-ballerini-fans-favor-chase-stokes-breakup\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kelsea Ballerini Shares How She&#8217;s Doing After Chase Stokes Breakup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But on their own social media, <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/kelsea-ballerini-fans-favor-chase-stokes-breakup\/\" target=\"_blank\">both stars have all but confirmed<\/a> that they&#8217;re not together anymore. Stokes said &#8212; without specifically mentioning Ballerini &#8212; that he&#8217;s &#8220;blocked&#8221; and apologized to fans who &#8220;believed in us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ballerini asked fans not to listen to the rumor mill, and said she&#8217;s trying to keep her personal and public lives separate right now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">8 Brutally Honest Divorce Lyrics From Kelsea Ballerini&#8217;s &#8216;Rolling Up the Welcome Mat&#8217; EP<\/h2>\n<div class=\"photogallery-description\">\n<p>Kelsea Balerini opened up her divorce diary in February 2023 with her <em>Rolling Up the Welcome Mat<\/em> EP, a project that follows the stages of a breakup \u2014 from grief and loneliness to anger to acceptance \u2014 in chronological order. Here are eight of the most revealing lyrics from the project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Carena Liptak<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=70&#038;gver=9&#038;bid=204&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3DGbJ4PR9JZzdxdLXzJnfIG9ZgkXSFQNevIcIY&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/kelsea-ballerini-penthouse-fan-heckling-team-morgan\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelsea Ballerini\u00a0is giving a final warning to fans who heckle or take sides while she&#8217;s performing her\u00a0Rolling Up the Welcome Mat track &#8220;Penthouse.&#8221; She&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}